b68026692e Her major work was The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense (1936). He found that this method of free association very often evoked memories of traumatic events in childhood, usually having to do with sex. Freud's daughter Anna Freud was the founder of the Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic in London, where her specialty was applying psychoanalysis to children. Norton & Company Logo Cart Support Signed in as: (Sign Out) My Account My Order History My Norton Smartwork My Ebooks Sign Out Sign In to Access Your Account BooksTextbooksAuthorsReading Guides & ExtrasAffiliate PublishersAboutAll SubjectsCollege CoursesBestsellersAward WinnersClassicsNew & ForthcomingBook SeriesGift Books See Larger Image Available: Ships in 1-2 daysOur Retail Price: $14.95 More RetailersAmazonBarnes and NobleBooks-A-MillionIndiebound Other Ways to Order International Ordering Secondary Schools Print this page Email this page Civilization and Its Discontents Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Paperback Sigmund Freud(Author), James Strachey(Editor, Translator) With an Introduction by Christopher Hitchens, With an Afterword by Peter Gay Freuds seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens. IzardNo preview available - 1977All Book Search results &raquo; . At the age of 4, he moved to Vienna, where he spent nearly his entire life. (This reversal is a matter of some controversy today.) Out of this clinical material he constructed a theory of psychosexual development through oral, anal, phallic and genital stages. Freud considered his patients' dreams and his own to be "the royal road to the unconscious." In The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), perhaps his most brilliant book, he theorized that dreams are heavily disguised expressions of deep-seated wishes and fears and can give great insight into personality. After graduating, he worked in several clinics and went to Paris to study under Jean-Martin Charcot, a neurologist who used hypnosis to treat the symptoms of hysteria.

References to this bookAdvances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 25Mark P. Other editions - View allCivilization and its DiscontentsSigmund FreudLimited preview - 2004Civilization and Its DiscontentsSigmund FreudLimited preview - 2002Civilization and Its DiscontentsSigmund Freud,Peter (AFT) Gay,Christopher HitchensSnippet view - 2010View all . About the author(2005)Sigmund Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis, simultaneously a theory of personality, a therapy, and an intellectual movement. The result is a pervasive and familiar guilt.Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey. 2015College RepsInternational RepsOrdering InfoPrivacy PolicyCareersContact . It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. Read full review. Read full review. Freud's theme is that what works for civilization doesn't necessarily work for man. He was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Freiburg, Moravia, now part of Czechoslovakia, but then a city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.